@UpzoneH @mnolangray It’s because of the sarin terrorist attack years ago.
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Aaron Zinman
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Aaron Zinman
@azinman
Apple R&D, former Google/Ginger/Empirical. PhD from the MIT Media Lab. AI + UX.
San Francisco, CA Katılım Nisan 2007
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@mnolangray I love how so many of your replies are basically “actually, it’s good that Japan is lacking in various public amenities. It’s uncivilized to be allowed to discard your trash in a public receptacle”
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Deromanticizing Japan:
1. There is rarely soap, sanitizer, or paper towels in restrooms. This probably helps to keep costs low and allow for lots of public restrooms, and bidets help a little, but also...gross! Anecdotally, few men seem to wash their hands.
Inazawa-shi, Aichi 🇯🇵 English
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I've converted my long thread of curated classic HCI demo videos into a mini-site with authentic period styling. :)
jackrusher.com/classic-ux/
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@emax Are you arguing for less features? ;)
If you think that’s true for Swift, you really don’t want to learn Scala!!!
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do you think maybe someone on the swift language team could have been like 'nah, let's not add *every single language feature in existence to the spec*'? my head hurts whenever i re-learn the language
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@emax Often times people buy either specialized GPUs/TPUs for inference, or rent it at scale from a cloud provider depending on the task.
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@azinman ... but that doesn't make sense. these are "pro" machines for "professional creators and scientists" - do they mean "except data scientists"? wheres's model training supposed to be done?
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so apple keeps talking about how sweet their neural engine is for ML; but they're largely talking about inference. anyone have any data on how the M1max/pro fare on large training tasks? i would reckon 'not very well' due to the small # of cores
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@emax They seemed be heavily geared towards creatives. I don’t know of any consumer device shipping a TPU for inference. That’d be wasted silicon for 99% of buyers. But I also don’t know the details on these chips or how well the GPUs do inference.
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My best friend is getting his day-long clinical trial treatment for colon cancer in the chemo suite @sloan_kettering w/many immunocompromised patients. He was just told that his nurse is unvaccinated.
Lives are at stake but so is your reputation, @sloan_kettering.
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Give me your best advice for crushing the PhD defense, but do it with a Jurassic Park GIF (ok the last part is optional but it will make me laugh).
<29 hrs to go 🥴🙈
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ALL adults in England are now finally eligible for a COVID jab.
This is a momentous day!
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@hahatango Because people suck, and snap judgments and mob rule are forces embedded into humanity. If you allow a network to be public and not private, it’s inevitable.
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Why do social networks start w good intentions, but as they scale, tend to become toxic? How does a network filter out these unintentional distractions to focus on purpose? I want a network that scales to make the world better solving problems.
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@settlersofcatan been trying to play with friends through the Catan app but we can't seem to log on. Updates would be appreciated.
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@PizzaHacker are you doing bagels anymore now that Douglas has closed? I only got them once two weeks ago and I’m obsessed!
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=GPT3()... the spreadsheet function to rule them all.
Impressed with how well it pattern matches from a few examples.
The same function looked up state populations, peoples' twitter usernames and employers, and did some math.
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When the opiate of the people moonlights as their anti-viral too
Vaughn Hillyard@VaughnHillyard
Video: Dream City Church, the Phoenix venue hosting President Trump on Tuesday, posted this video saying that newly-installed technology in the church “kills 99.9% of COVID-19 within 10 minutes” & that folks can know that “when you come here you’ll be safe and protected.”
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@DAVEYBOY733 @cathaypacific I’m happy to get the recipe! It’s one of the reasons I’d want to fly the airline, and with no travel in sight...
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@cathaypacific I THINK PEOPLE ARE MORE CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR CANCELLED FLIGHTS,AND NO ASSISTANCE THAN HAVING A COCKTAIL AT 30,000 FT,
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Yet to try our famous Cathay Delight #mocktail or miss its taste at 30,000 ft? Now you can enjoy it at home! All you need is whole milk, coconut milk, kiwi juice, mint leaves and the final secret ingredient unveiled in our video 🍸
#TillWeFlyAgain #cocktailsathome #cheers
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In SF, the park next to us is “closed” yet there are many people using it daily. This drives me nuts as it just extends the pain. Where’s the enforcement? #COVID19 #ShelterInPlace #SanFrancisco
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